Broken Wings

23 ~ We Were Supposed To Be Friends Forever

Tw: violence, mentions of death/character death. Stabby rip stab stabs. Electrocution. Mentions of anxiety medication, descriptive trauma. Please let me know if I've missed anything!

Pov: 3rd person

Virgil had been quick to react when mani pulled his feet out from under him like that, simply turning his hand, making electricity wrap around that string and forcing it to disappear. "mani, enough.. Please.. We can talk about this!" he panted, trying to straighten his wings, but wincing as they cracked. It hurt, so much.. But he wouldn't focus on that. He had to get mani to calm down. Even if that meant enduring even more pain. For his friend..

Of course the ruckuss had alerted a few of the dark sides. After all, manis room had been in the dark side of the mind Palace. Janus had been one of the first to go towards the noise, followed by remus, naturally. The noise seemed to be coming from manis room, but when they opened the door, it was... Bricked over. Janus frowned softly to himself, before his eyes widened. "Virgil-" he muttered, before running to the other end of the mind Palace to shake the others awake.

The three of them woke with a start, Logan and Patton quickly slipping their glasses on and forcing their eyes to adjust. "What's going on?" Patton mumbled sleepily, rubbing his eyes behind his round framed glasses. It really didn't take long for him to realise that virgil wasn't with them, becoming frantic withing mere seconds. He quickly jumped to his feet, only to be met with janus holding his shoulders to keep him from running off in the wrong direction. Janus looked to the twins. "you need to open the imagination.. Manipulation has Virgil.." it was the only possibility. Everyone else was accounted for. The other dark sides were all sprawled out in the living room of the dark side, and the light sides were all here.

The twins immediately lead the others to a door, leading to the imagination. Not just the dark half, or the light half, the entire imagination. Monsters of both of the twins' creations, different terrains and creatures roaming freely. Thunder rolled in the distance, alerting the twins of Virgils position, rather deep in the imagination. Seems like mani had been using it as his own, as creatures that neither of the twins seemed to recognise were coming from that direction. What was even more sickening, was the face that quite a few of them resembled Virgil. Some with bracelets similar to the one that virgil never took off, some with his old hoodie, and others with his heterochromia. The twins immediately pulled the others towards where Virgil was, knowing that they had to get there, to save their storm cloud.

Right as the others arrived, Virgil had just dodged one of Manis various attacks, panting heavily as beads of sweat rolled from his forehead. Manis eyes snapped over, right as a wicked smirk appears on his lips. That alone should've been plenty of warning, but..

Mani suddenly raised his hands, making scarlet strings wrap around Virgil. Causing Virgils eyes to be drained of all colour, and images filling his head. Reminders.. From before he had been accepted. The feeling of ridicule and complete, utter loathing filling him entirely. The not so kind things that the others had said about him when he first emerged filled his ears, and.. God.. He felt how he felt when Thomas was a teen.. The others had gotten Thomas to take anti-anxiety medication, because they thought that it would be best to take anxiety out of the picture entirely. It felt like Virgil was being ripped apart, over and over, his head pounding and every muscle aching. That was one of the worst months of Virgils life.. Tears welled in Virgils lifeless eyes, having to endure it all again.

"see? You'd be better off without them! All that they do is hurt you. You were stabbed. You were almost murdered. You have died time and time again, for them! And for what? What do they bring you in return? Somehow, you're always the one that gets hurt, for them!" mani shouted, a growl erupting in his throat towards the end.

Virgils eyes slowly fell closed, as he took in a few slow, deep breaths. Before long, his eyes snapped back open, one purple, while the other was green. He pushed his hands out to his sides, making clouds with lightning spread all over the imagination, lightning striking at his sides. "enough! I did what I had to do! It was my decision. And I'd do it again." he turned his hands and grabbed onto the strings that had wrapped around him, starting to tug on them. "I would die for them, again. I would get hurt for them, again. I'd do anything that I had to, to keep them safe.. And I'd do the same for you.." he fell silent, trailing his eyes along the strings with a soft hum. "but I can't let you hurt them, mani.." electricity crackled from his palms, trailing up the strings quickly until they reached mani, running through his body and earning a cry from him.

Within hardly seconds, Virgil had already stopped, leaving mani to drop to the ground. The two of them were wounded, and panting. Pain surging through both of their bodies like aftershocks of everything that had just happened. Had Virgil.. Won?

Obviously, it would be too good to be true. Virgils ears were filled with Pattons screams, as he spun around, he saw Patton being held in the air with smoke around him. He was thrown against a wall, making him fall limp as he hit the ground. Virgil ran over quickly, tears welling in his eyes as he scooped Patton up. Though, as soon as he had him in his arms, he heard the others' calls. He turned to look at them, seeing Patton standing with them. His heart felt like it stopped. It.. He didn't have Patton in his arms. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, an all too familiar sting. "I won't let you live like this anymore.." he heard mani say from being in his arms. He looked down to him, trailing his eyes along his arm, to where it was put through his chest in the shape of a blade. He pulled his arm out, tears rolling from his own eyes. "it's best for you, Virgil....."

"I'm sorry.."

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Oooookay, I've been procrastinating for so long omg- anyway, here's the chapter! Once again on one of my little cliffhangers :) quick shout out to ARandomHumanBean and Neko_obsessed_Fander
Yall honestly gave me so much serotonin when I saw the names and everything for the little squiggles, it was adorable! Any who, I'll hopefully be updating again soon-

~Dice 🎲💜